I can’t seem to find this book
she/they
I can’t seem to find this book
What’s wrong with GMOs? Poor genetic diversity?
How did you gather she’s offended from that single message? I don’t see any words suggesting that. Perhaps you’re overly defensive right now, and one might say, offended that someone sees things differently to you.
Asides feel more natural to me than weaving it in though. As in, it’s also easier for me to understand if someone uses asides.
Listening to employees when making decisions, what a concept! It’s a shame many places don’t do that.
No way, x is the best kind of x??
That’s why I take a T blocker 😎
Can I be a zeta male? I’m not even male, I just think zeta is a cool Greek letter.
If the sun disappears when? According to GR’s conception of simultaneous events, it disappears immediately.
That’s awesome. I love weird questions with weird but accurate answers.
Blahaj zone disables downvotes
Can’t you see you’re making bold assumptions about what other people mean now that you feel like they’re on the opposite “side”?
When did this user say they’re abstaining? Why did you infer that?
There’s a lot of hating on Biden for the things he’s done, but, as a member of the community, I don’t often see the sentiment that we shouldn’t vote for him. And that’s mostly in comments anyway. If I had to guess, the general view is “I’m going to vote for Biden and hate doing it”.
False, you’re extrapolating that he’ll not vote or vote for Trump based on what he says about Biden, which is completely fallacious reasoning.
Hey, let’s give OP the benefit of the doubt. We cannot pretend to know what They feel, so let’s just assume these pronouns really make Them happy in the same way as she/they for me. Because there’s other aspects to take issue with…
It’s the implied power dynamic and special grammar rules I don’t like. Capitalizing pronouns, especially since OP says They’re a goddess, feel is like lifting Them up above me, which I don’t feel is fair to me or anyone else. Then I also need to give Them special grammar rules, like they/them, my default gender-neutral pronouns, no longer being neutral? It feels like capitalization should be orthogonal to pronoun choice, but now everyone needs to relearn grammar. Most neopronouns are just learning a new word, not upending grammar. I’ve even noticed it changing how I’m reading replies in these threads, because the capitalized pronouns catch my eye like they’re the start of a sentence or a name I should take note of, they tricked me! I guess the only nice thing for me is it seems to more easily differentiate when a pronoun is referring to inanimate objects or a capital pronouns user.
Assuming OP is genuine (as you probably should), I think the main issue is the undue burden of everyone having to lower ourselves under our capitalized goddess. Should we be required to use a signal that implies You’re above us? When I switch to she, “she” doesn’t change the power dynamic between me and someone else, but if I said my pronoun is “master”, I think people would rightfully refuse. It doesn’t matter if OP sees this as a power thing, because most other people will and so forcing them to use it will bring up that feeling. Yes OP, I don’t want to make a trans person suicidal, but I also don’t want to make everyone around them feel lesser; and as You said, it doesn’t matter what others think, it matters what the person feeling it feels.
I did want to be respectful, and I think I got all the pronouns correct for OP, but it did make me uncomfortable for the reasons described above. In this thread I’ll try to capitalize pronouns as a show of respect, but I’d rather leave it in this thread to respect myself.
We have our first volunteer astronaut to Venus!
I’m 20% better than giraffes 😎
But it’s not literally the Holocaust again, so it’s fine /s
I’m trans, god help me…